Beyond observing changes in health status over time, it was also suggested repeatedly that having attachment would lessen patients' abilities to be deceptive because through forming a trusting relationship a regular doctor would come to know the patient and would diffuse any attempts at manipulation.
"Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture," at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, is an absorbing if inevitably diffuse attempt to recapture such a fugitive art, one that flourished for a mere five years, from 1967 to 1972.
His intervention thwarted the attempt, and diffused the most revolutionary situation in Russia since the uprising of 1917.
I am inclined to believe that somewhere along the way, our voices were silenced and our vitality was diffused in the process of attempting to obtain our piece of the American apple pie.
Earlier this week it also put out a wordy blog post attempting to diffuse this line of attack by pointing the finger of blame at the rest of the tech industry — saying, essentially, that a whole bunch of other tech giants are at it too.
It noted that the effort followed unsuccessful "peaceable attempts to diffuse the situation" by the SPCA.
The Christmas lectures continue to this day, forming part of the RI's attempts at "diffusing science for the common purposes of life".
The interior minister's attempts to diffuse the crisis with claims that co-ed housing was used as "a recruitment ground for terrorists" didn't help.
Despite a number of attempts to diffuse the tense situation with leftover Easter candy and offers to play with him, preliminary reports suggest that you are so busted and you knew you weren't permitted to be in here and there is every indication that, oooh, you're going to get in trou-ble.
There are some attempts to diffuse this necessary evil; Bamber's "don't tell me my job" while Norris tells us his job, Cunningham recapping events on the "public screen" and, perhaps worst, the flatulent piglet used to break up the scene between Mays and Norris.
